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April 22, 2015

What I Ate On Monday!

It wasn’t so easy this week to decide which day to feature for today’s What I Ate Wednesday fun!

After some serious thought (all of life’s problems should be this difficult) I decided to go with Monday.

Breakfast #1:

The truth is, breakfast for me usually looks exactly the same, any day of the week.

Although this week’s oatmeal with blueberries (peanut butter added after picture taken) is served in one of my new pretty bowls from Anthropologie!

Breakfast #2:

After my workout I had some of this super special oatmeal which I had made in order to take some pictures for a recipe post I am planning for Friday.

I recently (and by total accident!) created an UNBELIEVABLE oatmeal combination which I want to call unbaked baked oatmealbecause it tastes like baked oatmeal from the diner but it’s not from the diner and it isn’t baked.

We will talk about it more on Friday, I promise!

Lunch:

This salad. Oh, this salad.

I had the pleasure of having lunch at one of my all-time favorite restaurants, Mother Kelly’s. This warm-cold salad consists of tomato, cucumber, onion, goat cheese, craisins, candied walnuts, beets with grilled portobello mushroom, asparagus, roasted peppers and string beans.

I am no cheese lover but the little bit of goat cheese combined with everything else — out of control!

I would try to replicate this salad at home but I just know it would never be the same.

Dinner:

It’s stir fry week in our house.

I bought wild shrimp from Trader Joe’s the other day for a change of pace, mainly for my son.

The easiest and most delicious shrimp stir fry that comes together within minutes!

I should probably devote a post on the topic of how simple, quick and customizable this stir fry can be, and most importantly how you can simultaneously make a few versions if you have different diets dining at the same time.

It’s not that I don’t eat shrimp on occasion, I do, but quite often I am happy with my plant-based stir fry bowls.

Instead of adding shrimp to my plate, I mashed chick peas in with the avocado and mixed it all around to combine nicely with the brown rice, diced sweet potato, brussels sprouts and broccoli cooked with a mix of soy sauce and sweet chili sauce.

Comments

I always have the same thing for breakfast: english muffin with pb and jam and cereal on the side. And then second breakfast after. I love warm/cold salads, and goat cheese is my cheese of choice if I’m going to have some–love the creaminess.Susie @ SuzLyfe recently posted…Easy Cornbread Zucchini Protein Muffins (Gluten Free Recipe)

Breakfasts are the one meal that I have no problem repeating for months and months on end. But now that I’m having more smoothies, it’s gotten a little easier to vary things up since I can just change the fruits that I throw in the blender. And bananas will always and forever be my favourite oat mix ins. Those plus some almond butter and honey make my perfect bowl.Amanda @ .running with spoons. recently posted…. WIAW … this AND that, take 4 .

Any salad with beets and goat cheese I can’t resist when out to eat. Yours sounds so perfect! And new bowls are obviously something to post pictures of! I feel like my plates are so boring now since I see them in pictures constantly.Michele @ paleorunningmomma recently posted…WIAW That’s a lot of Orange + Recipe Testing

I used to always consume the same breakfast day after day. These days though, I really enjoy changing it up. Like today I had a random snack plate for breakfast. Two rice cakes – both topped with 1 tbsp. nut butter. One had grapes on top & the other had 1/2 banana. I also had 2 scrambled eggs on the side. It was delicious!

Our kids all love shrimp too but Andrew and I don’t care for the texture. Shrimp and mushrooms make that little squeaky sound when I sink my teeth into them. *shudder* My favourite oatmeal mix-in will forever be chocolate chips and half and half cream.Suzy recently posted…Woozy Wednesday: Can vs Bottle

I love honey crisp and Pink Lady apples. YUM!!
I sometimes vary my breakfast, but usually I eat the same thing for a week and then move on to something else for the next week.Shannon recently posted…Crispy Baked Tofu Fingers

Change up my beloved protein zoats? NEVER! hahaha. It’s one of those things that its a mix between I just love it and can’t see a morning without oatmeal but it’s also the fact that its my preworkout meal and it just fuels me the best and sits nicely. Favourite add ins? banana (melted) and I have been on a pineapple kick lately, toasted nuts for a lil crunch, peanut flour, cinnamon and of course nut butter!

I would be all over that salad btw. It looks amazing and despite not really being a cheese person (lactose intolerance probably is the reason for that mostly), goat cheese is my jam!Chelsea @ lil miss fitness freak recently posted…Follow-Up + Tuesday Thoughts

Ooh… Hmm. I haven’t been varying my breakfasts lately. I’ve been kind of in a rut, but Sarah @ Creating Better Tomorrow posted a bunch of overnight oat recipes, so I did that for breakfast this morning. It was yum. So I think, as I have more time, I’ll stop eating as much yogurt, and do something different. Ooh, and I like Honeycrisp apples. They fit their name SO perfectly. 😉Emily recently posted…Tuesday Runner Confessions.

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